Wendy Bevan
Artist
Wendy Bevan is a British musician, photographer and multimedia artist. She expresses a surreal and theatrical approach across genres in performance, photography, live visuals and experimental art works, on stage, musical performance, galleries and photographic imagery. Although initially training as a photographer at art school, Bevan led a parallel life studying performance and acting at drama college.
For over a decade, Bevan’s photographic works have been presented and published by leading international fashion publications including LOVE, i-D, POP, 10, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue Italia and Marie-Claire Italia. Her distinctive Polaroid work explores the identity and complexities of womanhood against a backdrop of the modern archetypical feminine identity. Her work welcomes in the femme fatale and celebrates the theatricality of the gothic. Bevan often uses fashion as costume and the photograph as an extension of the stage. She has taken portraits of female icons such as Debbie Harry and Tilda Swinton.
Bevan has exhibited and performed throughout the UK, Europe and internationally across various platforms, galleries and venues including the ICA, David Roberts Art Foundation, Toynbee Studios, Arts Admin, Hackney Empire and music festivals such as Latitude, Wilderness and Secret Garden Party. She has also participated in live art performance at festivals such as SPILL Festival of Performance, the Edinburgh Festival, and made appearances in immersive site specific venues as a performer with UK theatre company Punchdrunk. As a musician, Bevan has collaborated and worked with an array of music producers. Her debut album Rose and Thorn produced by Marc Collin (Nouvelle Vague) was released on Kwaidan and !K7 Records in September 2016.
Wendy Bevan is a British musician, photographer and multimedia artist. She expresses a surreal and theatrical approach across genres in performance, photography, live visuals and experimental art works, on stage, musical performance, galleries and photographic imagery. Although initially training as a photographer at art school, Bevan led a parallel life studying performance and acting at drama college.
For over a decade, Bevan’s photographic works have been presented and published by leading international fashion publications including LOVE, i-D, POP, 10, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue Italia and Marie-Claire Italia. Her distinctive Polaroid work explores the identity and complexities of womanhood against a backdrop of the modern archetypical feminine identity. Her work welcomes in the femme fatale and celebrates the theatricality of the gothic. Bevan often uses fashion as costume and the photograph as an extension of the stage. She has taken portraits of female icons such as Debbie Harry and Tilda Swinton.
Bevan has exhibited and performed throughout the UK, Europe and internationally across various platforms, galleries and venues including the ICA, David Roberts Art Foundation, Toynbee Studios, Arts Admin, Hackney Empire and music festivals such as Latitude, Wilderness and Secret Garden Party. She has also participated in live art performance at festivals such as SPILL Festival of Performance, the Edinburgh Festival, and made appearances in immersive site specific venues as a performer with UK theatre company Punchdrunk. As a musician, Bevan has collaborated and worked with an array of music producers. Her debut album Rose and Thorn produced by Marc Collin (Nouvelle Vague) was released on Kwaidan and !K7 Records in September 2016.
